点评:The market is one of the defining features of Stroud and is its lifeblood at the weekend. While specialist local produce isn’t bargain-basement prices it is top quality and from local businesses. The fresh milk, cream, yoghurt is delicious; the eggs fresher than you’ll find in a supermarket and entirely reasonably priced; the micro leaves at £2.50 a bag last unblemished for more than a week in the fridge. Apples and apple juice similarly delicious, reasonably priced and varied heritage varieties you can’t find elsewhere. Doughnuts are unparalleled and Sue Atkins’ gluten free baking is coeliac heaven. This is just touching the surface of course. So what if it’s busy: you wouldn’t get vibrancy, variety, and quality if nobody turned up. I’m a fairly ordinary public sector worker…neither a London type nor pretending to be arty. I do love the market though and Stroud wouldn’t be what it is without it.
翻译:斯特劳德的集市是这座城市的一大特色,也是周末的活力源泉。虽然这里的特色本地产品价格并非低廉,但品质上乘,而且全部来自本地商家。鲜牛奶、奶油和酸奶美味可口;鸡蛋比超市里的还要新鲜,价格也十分合理;2.5英镑一袋的微型蔬菜在冰箱里可以保存一周以上,依然完好无损。苹果和苹果汁同样美味,价格合理,而且品种繁多,都是别处难寻的传统品种。甜甜圈更是无与伦比,苏·阿特金斯的无麸质烘焙食品简直是乳糜泻患者的天堂。当然,这只是冰山一角。即便人潮涌动又如何?如果没有人光顾,又怎能感受到集市的活力、多样性和品质呢?我只是一个普通的公共部门工作人员……既不是伦敦那种时髦人士,也不是那种装腔作势的文艺青年。但我确实热爱这个集市,没有它,斯特劳德就不会是现在的样子。